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Sample Activity
Health Literacy Study Circle+ Facilitators Training
7. Walk Through/Talk Through Sessions Three, Four, and Five (50 minutes)
Distribute the handouts Skills for Health Care Access and Navigation: Session Three, Skills for Health Care Access and Navigation: Session Four, and Skills for Health Care Access and Navigation: Session Five.- “Talk through” Sessions Three, Four, and Five, using the agendas and objectives on the handouts and referring to the posted Access and Navigation HLSC+ Timeline.
- During the Introductory Activities in each session, the facilitator welcomes the group back, provides an overview of the session, and reviews the agenda and objectives.
- The participants reflect on their experiences in teaching health literacy lessons in the Discussion and Analysis Activities of Sessions Three and Four. Brainstorming health literacy unit topics in Sessions Three is followed by a discussion of unit planning and its evaluation in Session Four. During Session Five participants share a plan for a health literacy unit and reflect on their experiences in developing it. Participants also develop an action plan for how to continue incorporating health literacy into their classes in Session Five.
- During the Planning Activities, participants prepare for the assignment between sessions—teaching their own lesson, planning a unit—in the third and fourth session respectively. In Session Five, participants decide how to keep in contact with each other.
- The Closure Activities are: Content Review, Methods Review, Session Evaluation, and Closing Notes.
- Explain to participants that now they will “walk through” reviewing lesson plans and unit plans. This is a modification of the Planning Activities from Sessions Three, Four, and Five. In Session Two participants plan to teach a sample lesson. In Session Three they begin to plan a lesson of their own. In Session Four they begin to plan a unit of lessons. In Session Five they plan an implementation strategy.
- Distribute the handouts Lesson Plan Template and Health Literacy Unit Template.
Ask the participants to take 10 minutes to review the handoutLesson Plan Template from Session Three and the Health Literacy Unit Template from Session Four.Ask them to reflect on the challenges that they imagine teachers would face in planning health literacy lessons and units and using theme-based instruction. Think also about their conducting of the Needs Assessment after Session One and teaching of the sample lesson after Session Two. - Reconvene the participants. Explain to participants that they will be participating in a “force-field” analysis of the challenges and supports teachers may face as they plan for and implement health literacy lessons and units.
Post the newsprint Successful Planning and Implementation of Lessons and Unit.
Succesful Planning and Implementation of Lessons and Unit
Supports Challenges
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- Ask the group to brainstorm the challenges (factors that hinder) they think teachers will face in accomplishing the assignments. These may be limited time, problem participants, and lack of support from program director. Write, exactly as said, each challenge mentioned on the right side of the newsprint. Take no more than 10 minutes to list challenges.
- Then ask the group to brainstorm all of the supports (factors that help) they think teachers will have as they tackle the assignments. These may be support from colleagues and interest of the participants. Write these on the left side of the newsprint under "Supports.”
- Lead a 20-minute discussion with the whole group about how the challenges could be reduced and how the supports could be increased. Make sure to include what they as facilitators can do, too.
- Point out that the teachers will identify a partner to work with and be in contact with for support. Invite participants to ask questions about facilitating a force field analysis.